“Without additional relief, it is likely to break down, although we will introduce a third outbreak of the virus in the Midwest and West,” the letter said.
And top officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday’s affairs in hospitals are unlikely to look good any time soon.
“The reality is December and January and February will be rough times. I really believe they will be the most difficult time in the history of this nation’s public health, largely due to the stress that will be placed on us. The health care system,” said Dr. Said Robert Redfield.
Los Angeles residents are told to ‘cancel everything’.
The states of the United States are scrambling to catch the skyrocketing number of coronavirus hospitalizations.
If the coronavirus continues to spread at its current, unprecedented rate, Los Angeles will run out of hospital beds by Christmas, Mayor Eric Garcetti warned at a news conference Wednesday, helping residents stop “hunker down” and help “cancel everything”. Spread the virus.
“The public health situation in our city is as dire as it was in March in the early days of the epidemic,” he said, adding that the number of daily coronavirus infections in Los Angeles had tripled since early November and hospital admissions were new. . Top.
In the southwestern region of Kansas, Gov. Laura Kelly said Wednesday that there are no staffed ICU beds available.
“While the number of cases may have dropped slightly, the stress on our hospitals and health care workers is not small.”
The state dashboard shows that coronavirus hospital admissions in Nevada have been on a daily basis since November, and on Wednesday were at the top 1,652 people were hospitalized, the state dashboard shows.
100 million can be vaccinated by February
There may be ways to go before the coronavirus vaccine is widely used, but growth is accelerating.
By February, 100 million Americans could be vaccinated against coronavirus, Monsef Sloui, chief adviser to Operation Worm Speed, said Wednesday.
“All the investments we’ve made to increase vaccine production and start stockpile manufacturing allow us to be confident that we will be able to distribute 20 million vaccines, enough to vaccinate 20 million people in the U.S. in December,” Sloe said. A news briefing.
The United States has said that if both Pfizer and Moderna go to the U.S. in December If the Food and Drug Administration acquires the right to emergency use, they could distribute 40 million doses of the vaccine by the end of the month. Two doses are needed for each vaccine, so it is enough to give a full vaccine to 200 million people.
Sloe said he expects 60 million more vaccines by the end of January.
A meeting is expected by an FDA panel on December 10 and December 17 to authorize Pfizer and Moderna vaccine candidates, respectively.
Assuming the vaccines are authorized, the first shipment can take place on December 15 and 22, respectively, according to the federal government’s Operation Operation Vern Speed document.
The CDC panel on Tuesday recommended inoculating health care and long-term care workers.
A member of the FDA’s vaccine advisory group, Dr. The technology could help the vaccine product adequately to cover the global population, Politt said on Wednesday.
“You really, I think, in a few years, will be able to make enough vaccines to vaccinate 7 billion people.” “There is no reason for that to happen.
Vaccine tests for children are set for 2021
Although vaccines are ongoing, they have only been studied in adults and children over 12 years of age.
Tests for young children could begin early next year, said Dr. Krishna Kumar, director of the National Institute of Health. Francis Collins said Wednesday. “We really need to get there,” Collins told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
“After the first year of the year, we want to find out if this works for young children as well, because we know they can get infected and they can go through this,” he said.
“So it’s the next type of test that needs to be done in a vaccine test to make sure the vaccine is safe and effective in that group.”
“We think it will be, but we want to make sure,” Collins said.
Children now represent about 12% of all Covid-19 cases in the country.
CNN’s Steve Elmasi, Jason Hanna, Shelby Lynn Erdman, King Razek, Maggie Fox, Andre Diaz, Jamie Gumbrech, Jennifer Henderson, Rebecca Rise and Lure Ren Mascarenhas contributed to the report.
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